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Streamlining the Path to FedRAMP High

COMMENTARY | Achieving FedRAMP High Authorization doesn't need to be so laborious.

People

Trump creates 'Schedule G' to add more political appointees to agencies top ranks

The new, non-career employees will serve in policy-making roles and add "horsepower" to carrying out the administration's agenda, White House says.

People

Private letter warned cuts to DHS intel office would ‘create dangerous intelligence gaps’

The International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts said in a previously unreported missive that staffing cuts that were initially planned for DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis would “undermine” and “degrade” various intelligence-sharing functions.

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HPod Episode 3: Securing AI at the edge

In this episode, explore how federal agencies can securely harness AI and edge computing to meet the mission without exposing their operations.

Emerging Tech

SECNAV: Robots won’t replace shipbuilders, but they could make jobs ‘easier’

Phelan said shipyards should equip workers with tools like automation and robotics to boost training.

Emerging Tech

NIST uncorks the bottle on entire pancreatic cancer genome

The secret to the success of the program was an anonymous cancer patient who fully consented to making the genetic code of her cancer cells publicly available.

Acquisition

GSA's vision for procurement is about having 'one wallet'

Stephen Ehikian, the General Services Administration's acting leader, compares how GSA wants to approach consolidated common goods and services purchasing to how bulk retail operates.

People

Trump’s CISA nominee to testify before Senate panel next week

Sean Plankey served at the Energy Department and National Security Council during Trump’s first term.

Digital Government

GSA plans to optimize operations following cost-cutting, agency head says

GSA’s acting head Stephen Ehikian said “phase two” of the agency’s approach will prioritize becoming “much more efficient, much more effective and [with] much more of an eye towards our stakeholders, which is the American taxpayer.”

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How AI powered federal service delivery can take agencies from reactive to proactive, at scale.

Federal agencies face growing pressure to improve services despite tight budgets and outdated systems. By adopting AI, they can shift from reactive to proactive service delivery—anticipating needs, optimizing resources, and building trust through faster, more personalized experiences.

Artificial Intelligence

Congress’ AI moratorium isn’t dead yet, Rep. McCormick says

A provision preventing states from enforcing AI regulations did not make it into the final reconciliation law, but advocates are still pushing for its passage.

Digital Government

Justice pushes agencies to use AI-assisted translations, when offering them at all

The July 14 memo encourages agencies to determine which services would be better operated exclusively in English and to make use of AI where translations are needed.

Acquisition

Idaho National Lab teams up with Microsoft to improve nuclear permitting reviews

The collaboration will enable the lab to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud and artificial AI tech to “streamline and accelerate the review process” for required reports from reactor developers.

Cybersecurity

Salt Typhoon hacks into National Guard systems a ‘serious escalation’, experts warn

“Going forward, all U.S. forces must now assume their networks are compromised and will be degraded,” a former Air National Guard servicemember said.

Exclusive Acquisition

GSA, Uber partner to cut travel costs for feds, military and select contractors

The partnership with Uber for Business has major implications for the federal workforce at home and abroad.

Policy

House NDAA draft mandates database of contractors used in covert operations

The early stage defense bill draft would create an internal list of contractor clients that assist the U.S. military in its secret operations “to facilitate deconfliction and risk assessment.”

Exclusive People

The U.S. DOGE Service is still hiring

The hires are intended to fill what used to be the U.S. Digital Service after many employees there left or were laid off.

People

State Department cuts hit cyber diplomats doing international engagements

Impacted units in the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy include the Office of Bilateral and Regional Affairs and Office of Strategy, Programs and Communications.

Cybersecurity

OMB draft memo sets agency and vendor quantum security standards

The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a new memorandum to outline steps for the federal government’s migration to a post-quantum cryptographic standard.